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Mead posted...

RoboXgp89 posted...

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure.

Last I checked cigarettes arent a form of violent crime

There's an argument to be made that secondhand smoke should qualify as one. 41,000 deaths a year is quite a bit higher than many actual violent crimes, after all.

captpackrat posted...

green dragon posted...

I love my instant pot. The last thing I cooked in it was beef stew. super easy and amazingly tasty

The instructions mentioned something about making stew in 30 minutes and I'm amazed. The last time I made stew it took hours.

That's the magic of pressure. Everything works faster when it's under pressure.

DPsx7 posted...

It's too soon.

It'll be just over 7 years since the PS4 launched. That's actually on the long side for a console generation. Most are 6 years.

I like me a good booty, but that's a bit much. Especially so where I'm guessing it loses most of that shape the moment the leggings come off.

Kerr Avon posted...

What does "Heifer" mean in this context?

The term itself refers to a female cow, but it's Duckbear's go-to insult for any woman he doesn't like, regardless of how bovine she is.

Blaqthourne posted...

adjl posted...

Hypothetically, the entire population of the world could fit into Texas, with a population density about 5-10% higher than that of Manhattan

Hypothetically, it could probably fit in NYC. According to statista.com, there's just under 240 million square feet of office space just in midtown Manhattan:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/605882/size-of-office-area-manhattan-by-submarket/

Considering most people take up around 1 square foot of ground while standing, you could probably stuff everyone into NYC if they were all standing. The vast majority would probably die relatively quickly, though, if everyone was forced to remain for any extended length of time.

Touche.

bulbinking posted...

Maybe certain countries have higher populations because other countries decided to help them increase fertility by providing aid without said countries learning proper social responsibility first?

Explosive population growth in developing countries is usually a consequence of the fact that it takes time for cultures to catch up to the fact that their infant mortality rate has gone down. When infant mortality rates are high, you need to keep pumping out kids to have any chance of having a couple reach adulthood. When infant mortality rates go down, you get a period of explosive growth because people keep having the same number of kids, but those kids actually survive. That growth naturally slows down within a generation or two.

Sure, it'd be nice if birth rates could reduce at the same time as infant mortality rates, for more controlled population growth, but that's just not a realistic expectation. Somebody who watched 8 of their 10 siblings die before puberty (and similar rates among all their friends and extended family) isn't going to immediately be okay with only having 2-3 kids just because some doctor says those kids probably won't die. You need a couple generations of people experiencing those lower mortality rates for themselves.

TheSlinja posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Non-gamers. That'd be the most people, with the added loophole that gamers could simply give up gaming for a while if they needed some medical bills covered.

I choose the opposite with the loophole that non gamers can simply start gaming for a while and it helps the game industry too

Also a valid loophole. I personally feel like it's easier to drop a major hobby than it is to adopt one you aren't interested in, but your alternative is easier to do preemptively.

Bugmeat posted...

Fortunately those are cleared up with some simple antibiotics.

At least until we end up with antibiotic-resistant strains.

Non-gamers. That'd be the most people, with the added loophole that gamers could simply give up gaming for a while if they needed some medical bills covered.

All these Tinder sluts need to use more condoms, it seems.

aDirtyShisno posted...

Sexual orientation however is constantly changing. Today you feel like dating women but in 5 years you decide you want to date men, then years later you date both, and so on, and so on... Making it illegal to discriminate based upon your preferences opens up a can of worms when your preferences are something untoward, such as animals, objects, or children.

In this case it would appear to be mostly harmless since all this does is protect against job discrimination but as the justices are pointing out it would create legal precedence that would apply in many other areas that can see individual preferences protected when they are otherwise harmful to society as a whole.

It's not really setting a slippery slope of legal precedent to say "gay sex is okay because it's between consenting adults." Animals and children are not consenting adults, so they're not fair game, and in fact are illegal to have sex with (in which case, you're not discriminating based on their sexual preference, but on their criminal record). Objects? It's weird, but it's not hurting anybody, so there's no reason to discriminate on that basis (unless they start ****ing random objects at work, which is unsanitary and an unauthorized use of work time and therefore a justifiable reason to fire them).

I wouldn't say one is any more legitimate than the other, but I find fanart tends to be less terrible than fanfiction, simply by virtue of the fact that people are more readily able to look at a picture they've drawn and decide that it's not worth sharing than they are able to read a story they've written and decide that. It's just easier to see the bigger picture (literally, I suppose) with visual art.

DPsx7 posted...

I can't see anything addicting about it.

Random loot is inherently addicting, regardless of what game it's in. The chance of finding an upgrade or some other cool new thing is a great way to keep people rolling the dice. The battle royale model means you're finding upgrades literally every game (since you start with nothing; the same applies to Rogueli(t/k)es), and Fortnite tacks on random cosmetic loot as well for another layer of random reward. Toss in that matches are relatively short and easy to start, meaning you don't have to put any effort into getting another chance to roll those dice, and you've got a thoroughly addicting gameplay loop.

That you don't personally find it addicting doesn't mean it doesn't have addictive mechanics.

Ah, okay. That makes sense. Most of my knowledge of the technique comes from the explanation a guy gave of a ray tracing engine he built in Factorio, which he used to produce a small game that vaguely resembled the Windows 95 screensaver maze thingy. That was a pretty wild video.

MICHALECOLE posted...

No I think it should be available for everybody, it shouldnt be hard to find

Underrated post.

Muscles posted...

adjl posted...

Full Throttle posted...

She had cocaine, psiolcybin mushrooms, Aderall, Xanax and weed in her system and claims the weed is the one that made her have 'psychotic visions'

Mix that many drugs, and you really can't pin it down to any single one of them.

I mean, you can count out the weed and shrooms since they don't do that

You can't count out anything. When dealing with psychoactive stuff, drug interactions can get pretty wild. Don't mix drugs, kids.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Full Throttle posted...

The students put forth demands including more education around what constitutes sexual assault and resources for students

Again, why is this a responsibility of the school?

Because the point of school is to prepare kids for adult life, and adults need to know how to not rape somebody.

I haven't seen one of these "popular, addictive game is worse than cocaine" lawsuits in a while. I vaguely remember the occasional one popping up when WoW was in its heyday, but that was quite some time ago.

Sahuagin posted...

there are lots of -pathy ailments. ex:

myopathy: muscles
cardiopathy: heart
enteropathy: intestines
psychopathy: mind

the related word that encompasses the field of study is pathology, as well as the word pathological.

Indeed. Technically speaking, we could call somebody with heart disease a "cardiopath." We just tend not to define and label people by physical illnesses the way we define and label people by mental illnesses (which, given that personality and identity are entirely mental, isn't necessarily an unreasonable thing), so that's never caught on as a label. Of course, the fact that "psycho-" and "sociopath" both refer to antisocial personality disorder and not more broadly to all psychological and social impairments (respectively) is a bit of a morphological faux pas, but that's English for you.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

what even is ray tracing

To grossly oversimplify it, it's a method of video rendering wherein the image is composed as a series of vertical lines extending from a viewpoint, each of which is called a ray. Every frame, each of these rays gets rendered based on the viewpoint's position relative to objects in the environment, creating the image.

wwinterj25 posted...

Is this another buzz word for the industry? Teraflops was better.

Ray tracing's a pretty ancient technique. I'm pretty some variants of it were used for the original Doom and Wolfenstein.

Muscles posted...

adjl posted...

China creates their own reality to be in touch with. They don't really care about yours.

It's not my reality, it's reality, and they are proving SP right by doing exactly what SP said they would do, hell they are making exaggerated satire look like facts

The Chinese government is like a child throwing a temper tantrum and shoving thereit fingers in their ears and going nananana I can't hear you

They don't look strong, or powerful or badass or manly or whatever they are going for

And none of that matters because they've created a reality in which what you're saying isn't true. You can say it all you want, even defend it with logic and critical thinking, but at the end of the day they're making their approach work very, very well. They don't have to care about your opinions on how childish they seem because they get to control a billion people instead.

Lokarin posted...

umm, that's kinda the definition of incel

Bulbasaur posted...

that's one of the key defining things for an incel

no one will have sex with them and they think they're entitled to someone having sex with them

These. The term specifically refers to people who are bitter that they aren't getting as much sex as they feel they're entitled to. If they don't feel bitter and entitled, then they're just a plain old lonely virgin, not an incel.

Peterass posted...

Maybe it's because they are civilized countries that don't decapitate their enemies in public.

He says, from a country that still practices capital punishment.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

The party got wasted. That means the groom was drunk and was not legally able to consent to anything he was doing to the bridesmaid.

You don't need to secure your consent for your own actions. You do need to secure consent for actions you perform that affect others.

Philip027 posted...

If I wanted to just "explore" and not get anything out of it, I could just go walk outside.

At least until you've finished exploring your immediate surroundings. Then you'll have to travel to find a new environment to explore, at which point buying an aimless exploration game may actually be more cost-effective.

wantmew posted...

Slavery existed in just about every civilization, yet so many people only seem to remember America's slavery period which only lasted for about a century.

America's slavery period is notable because it's one of the most recent in a developed country, as well as the fact that the American slave code was particularly brutal. It's also notable for the systemic racism that persisted even after abolition, which is still an issue today.

Grendel posted...

BlackScythe0 posted...

To get defamation you would have to prove malice which would be difficult since he is politically motivated... I guess now that you're actually making me think about it I can't think of any actual applicable crime, it's just difficult for me to accept that he is able to fabricate stuff like this.

You'd also have to prove that it's false and "it sounds false" probably doesn't cut it.

Full Throttle posted...

He offered no verfiable evidence to back up his story as the chief CEO of the site said "this guy never worked for me" after checking records.

That sounds pretty conclusively false, actually.

Zikten posted...

Alaska in the summer IMO

There's an argument to be made that Alaska is also Pacific Northwest. It's on the Pacific coast, and it's north and/or west of pretty much the entire country.

If it's a game I already own a copy of, then a remake will generally have to add something more substantial than a graphical upgrade for me to want it, though "reimagining" is a bit of a strong word for that. I was a big fan of WWHD for the way it addressed some of the original's more crippling flaws and turned it into an amazing game, despite not changing all that much content. If it's a game I don't already own, I kind of prefer simple graphical updates because they tend to be cheaper, unless the original's gameplay is too dated to be enjoyable now without some tweaks.

BlackScythe0 posted...

PK_Spam posted...

Who the fuck has numerous confederate flags in their own home?

Racists.

Not really any other reason to have them all over the place.

I mean, there are also people that have bought into the "southern pride" thing that racists have peddled to make their kind seem more numerous. Much like the straight pride thing, it's not necessarily that they're racist themselves. Just historically ignorant.

Aaantlion posted...

The image in question literally mentions that she chose to share it.

... with anyone who looked up her profile. That's how a public profile works.

Aaantlion posted...

Maybe 50 years ago that might have been valid, but we live in the social media age when your off-the-job conduct can have a *direct* impact on your employers.

adjl posted...

nobody thinks less of a company because one of its employees has a picture on their instagram of themselves at the beach in a bikini. That's just stupid.

I stand by my statement. Yes, off-the-job conduct can negatively impact your employers, but that's generally limited to openly badmouthing them or putting on a swastika armband over your uniform shirt. Going to the beach or enjoying yourself at a party do not reflect poorly on an employer.

Aaantlion posted...

More importantly, why would you choose to share unprofessional images with a potential employer?

What exactly is unprofessional about wearing a swimsuit at a pool?

Mead posted...

adjl posted...

The drift issue is a consequence of dust/debris getting into the base of the stick, so it's likely less a matter of the unit being defective as Helly being really unlucky with his stick-debris.

If dust causes an issue that easily then its the device that is defective

The world is a fairly dusty place

I tend to interpret "defective" as "this particular thing was sold with a problem that this thing doesn't usually have." Something that's defective isn't working the way it's supposed to. When all copies of the device are equally susceptible to the problem, that's not so much a once-off defect and more a matter of a fundamental design flaw (which it is).

TheWitchMorgana posted...

adjl posted...

The drift issue is a consequence of dust/debris getting into the base of the stick, so it's likely less a matter of the unit being defective as Helly being really unlucky with his stick-debris.

well I saw wood right next to my switch all the time I dont see the problem

*Shrug*

Mead posted...

reddit says xell bellringer

for anyone curious

Xev*

Presuming it's the one I'm thinking of, anyway. I'm not exactly in a position to check.

The same reason schools provide free toilet paper: It's a hygienic necessity that patrons are not always going to be able to supply on their own, for any number of reasons.

Lokarin posted...

I just don't know why it's a school thingy specifically.

Because schools are typically governed by a single body who can say "okay guys you should all do this now," making it more likely that they'll commit to such a paradigm shift. Schools are also primarily patronized by younger people, meaning the girls in question aren't necessarily as familiar with managing their periods and therefore may not be as prepared as they need to be. Schools also often require their students to stay on the premises for several hours, meaning girls who don't have pads/tampons on them aren't necessarily going to be able to slip out to buy some more.

Lots of reasons, really.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

BlackScythe0 posted...

We don't police speech, just intent.

Except the charge is vastly larger for the words he used while doing what every dirty cop does in the US.

Because the words in question indicate his intent.

I just made dinner for the rest of the week and am now eating lunch before I head off to class for the rest of the afternoon/evening.

By sheer virtue of their size, phones will never be more powerful than comparably-priced desktops. They will eventually reach a point where the vast majority of users won't need any more power than they can provide, though, so that will become a non-issue. However, people will always have preferences for input systems and screen sizes that will mean desktops and laptops will continue to have a market (or at least docking stations that allow a phone to be used as the computing device for a laptop- or desktop-sized workstation, which will likely be more expensive than just buying a suitable laptop or desktop).

Charocks posted...

Yes. If you honestly believe that you need a semi-automatic rifle for home defense, then you're either insane or such an incredibly bad shot that you shouldn't own a squirt gun let alone an actual gun.

The thing I don't get about the "home defense" argument is that the people espousing it never seem to also suggest that it's a good idea to have an AED in homes. Heart disease kills 610,000 Americans every year, orders of magnitude greater than the number killed by home invaders (I'm seeing 100 in one spot, but I'm having trouble pinning down exact numbers in a quick search), yet none of these people who allegedly care so much about personal safety are doing anything to address that vastly greater risk.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

They were never obligated to start a business in the first place, nobody had the right to buy things from the shopkeeper prior to starting a business.

Irrelevant.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

If he does not sell to a person/group, they simply do not get that advantage, they have not been deprived.

Only if we assume an infinite market. In practice, one shop of a given type opening in an area frequently prevents other, similar shops from opening in the area due to the fact that there simply isn't enough of a market to support more than one, particularly if we're talking about a small town (as we have been). Therefore, by operating in a manner that excludes a group, that group is likely to be deprived of the ability to get the service without traveling.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Then they were using an advantage the shopkeeper was not willing to give to them for years.

You're really going to go with "the closeted gay person is the villain here, not the homophobic dickwad"? Really?

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The previous owner offered the service, the new one does not, at no point was anybody owed that service.

Irrelevant. The new guy's still an asshole.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Sounds like they were forced by circumstance to offer an advantage they weren't happy to offer and when given the opportunity to act freely, they stopped offering the thing they didn't want to give.

Oh no! They were afraid that people might think they were assholes for acting like assholes, so they had to hide it! How horrible!

Kyuubi4269 posted...

As I think I've made clear, they were never entitled to that person's business, so they went from +1 advantage to 0, they did not go from 0 to -1 (a disadvantage).

0 is disadvantaged relative to +1. Unless you're going to try telling somebody with 0 food that they should be glad they don't have -1 food.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

While I don't care for this to be suddenly flipped on, let's imagine it did. A provision could easily be made that previous customers can continue to use services available to them but no new customers could. That would mean that nobody who already put down roots would be effected, but anybody who moves in to rural hickland should be wary of potential restrictions and act accordingly. If they cannot use a service then it's on them to ensure their move would allow them to live how they want to.

While that's a particularly absurd hypothetical, blaming those moving in is only reasonable if it's well-advertised that they won't be able to shop there. Otherwise, you've just got a bunch of assholes making people's lives worse for (presumably) no reason, which is exactly what I just said not to do.

Some games really don't lend themselves to having their difficulty adjusted without changing a lot, but if it's reasonably simple to put one in (i.e. tweak a few damage/hp values, adjust some spawns, remove some of the more challenging attack patterns...), there's really no reason not to have an easier mode. If the mere existence of an easy mode detracts from your ability to enjoy a game that's challenging on harder modes, you really need to get over yourself. More people enjoying a game that you like is not a bad thing.

Yellow posted...

Different difficulty modes are probably one of the easiest things to throw in as an afterthought. It's why it's in almost every single game, it doesn't take any development time.

You literally just throw in a damage modifier for difficulty and another menu option to enable it.

if (mode == hard) difficulty_modifier = 2
if (mode == medium) difficulty_modifier = 1
if (mode == easy) difficulty_modifier = 0.5

damage_done = enemy_damage * difficulty_modifier

That's the lazy way out, and it's often not that enjoyable. Take it to extremes, and you get either rocket tag or bullet sponges (or enemies being bullet sponges that play rocket tag with you), which just gets tedious instead of actually harder. Proper difficulty should make it harder to avoid making errors, not just punish those errors more.

TheWitchMorgana posted...

nah you lost your right to the "i just don't like trudeau" angle when you expressed support for the fascist party sorry

He lost that when he decided to stick with "WWII Japan was better than Canada under Trudeau." Dude's not exactly all there when it comes to political opinions.

The term "incel" refers specifically to a very angry, bitter subculture of people who are upset about getting less sex than they feel they deserve and blame that on external forces, often expressing some rather violent inclinations. It's quite distinct from simply being a lonely virgin, which is perfectly fine. Being an incel, however, isn't a good thing.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The promotion isn't for current account holders, it's for potential new customers. New customers need to know, existing customers get a nice perk.

It's still not going to be handed out with no explanation or prior notice.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

They didn't take it, they were given it. The law is pretty clear that when you give a gift, you waive any rights to take it back.

It's not a gift if you don't intend to give it.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

We know banks are supposed to super-mega-ultra secure as that's why we trust them to hold every penny we earn.

No, we don't. If you honestly believe that, then I'm sorry to shatter your rather deluded world view, but nobody actually believes that banks are infallible. We trust that their error rates are very low, and more importantly that they will correct any errors that negatively impact us, but we do not know that they are perfect and incapable of error. That very obviously is not and will never be true. You're being ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

By that same logic, it's reckless driving to go over 5mph as you don't know a kid won't jump out from behind a car under your wheels.

That's not remotely analogous and I have no idea how you can possibly think that's the same logic.

Aculo posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Probably a good idea not to share that kind of information here tbh

Too late for that but making the account is super cringy.

incorrect use of cringy. more old man points gained, ok?

Nah, it's pretty cringy. Watching anyone do something so sad and pathetic is a reliable source of second-hand embarrassment, also known as "turbocringe," to use the hip lingo of today's cool cats.

Mead posted...

dammit Canada can you control your hogs

their dogs are invading too

https://imgur.com/VqhaCBj

Don't tell NMB.

Noop_Noop posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

You'd be fine with universities firing all the professors who share the same political beliefs as you, right?

I'd be fine with firing any professor who attempts to push their political beliefs when they're supposed to be fucking teaching, yes.

Then you want to fire every teacher. It's virtually impossible to teach facts without making decisions about which facts are important enough to be taught, and those decisions almost always have some degree of political bias behind them. They shouldn't, but we live in a world where everybody's got an opinion and somebody's going to disagree with something everyone else says.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

If somebody gives you cash, it's reasonable to assume it's for you.

If you were not expecting a $100,000 deposit into your bank account, then it very much is not reasonable to assume that it's intended for you, rather than a mistake on the bank's part. It's never reasonable to assume something that has so much precedent for not being true.

HornedLion posted...

You cant punish the hamster, he has no grasp of the matter.

Except these "hamsters" are actually sentient human beings who can absolutely be expected to have a grasp of the matter. They therefore have a responsibility to act appropriately, and immediately spending $100,000 they knew wasn't theirs is not acting appropriately.

likehelly posted...

it's a bank. these mistake should not happen, and if they do, should be covered by the bank because it's a f***ing bank where these mistakes shouldn't f***ing happen

As nice an idea as that is, mistakes are still going to happen, regardless of what safeguards are in place. If you start placing 100% of the responsibility on the bank for covering losses on this scale, that's going to result in the bank finding whatever lower-level employee was most directly responsible for the error and taking the loss out of their pay. Given that this is likely to be 2-3 years' worth of pay, that means banks won't be able to find anyone to work those positions because of the risks involved and/or will have to dramatically increase their wages to compensate, neither of which are particularly conducive to the bank being able to function.

These mistakes shouldn't happen, no, but they do, and the safeguards in place to mitigate their impact include the legal protocols for finding money like this. The only reason there's any problem at all here is because the couple decided to say "I guess this is our money now they can't catch us," instead of contacting the bank to figure out what happened. Had they followed protocol, everything would have been fine.

wwinterj25 posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

"It's okay to steal from people if they made a mistake that allowed you to take their money."

Having money paid into your account or finding it isn't actually taking it directly from them yourself so sure.

Spending it when you know it isn't yours is, though. Simply finding it isn't taking it, but when you decide to use it for yourself, you are making a decision to take it and act as though it's yours.